The Skeptic Metaphysicians: Spiritual Awakening & Quantum Spirituality

Most of the self-help world sells you a better version of yourself. Joseph Bongiovi says that’s the wrong assignment.
 
After 20+ years in mainstream entertainment and getting sober at 21, Joseph learned that fame, money, and recognition never delivered the happiness they promised. Today he’s a certified life coach and meditation instructor, founder of Spiritual Warriors, and author of Wake The F*ck Up!
 
We talk about why the greatest transformation isn’t becoming someone new, it’s remembering who you’ve always been. Along the way: how childhood protection mechanisms follow us into adulthood, why waking up is harder than ever, and what manifestation looks like when the universe skips the red Corvette.
 
Then comes the skeptic’s question: if every belief is conditioning, isn’t the “true self” just another story? Joseph’s answer may surprise you.

You’ll also leave with a simple 90-second breathing practice for the next time emotions run hot.
 
Connect with Joseph:
josephbongiovi.com
myspiritualwarriors.com

The Skeptic Metaphysicians is a spiritual awakening podcast for open-minded thinkers who refuse to check their critical thinking at the door. Each episode explores consciousness expansion, enlightenment, soul purpose, and soul growth through honest, grounded conversation with leading voices in metaphysics, psychic phenomena, quantum healing, and beyond. 

We dive deep into spiritual awakening, ascension, alignment, and the awakening process without the dogma. From mediumship and spirit guides to Arcturian contact, astrology, and the subconscious mind, we explore it all with curiosity, humor, and zero guru worship.

Whether you're in the middle of your own awakening, questioning reality, or just spiritually curious, this is the podcast for seekers and skeptics alike.

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Conversations from The Skeptic Metaphysicians

Some moments in an interview are too good to leave buried at minute 37. 

Conversations is our series of short, single-topic episodes taken from our interviews with some of the most fascinating minds in consciousness, spirituality, and the science of the unseen. There’s no warm-up and no detours. You get one guest, one big idea, and a few minutes that might change how you see your life.

Think of each one as a doorway. Play it on your commute, between meetings, or whenever you need a reminder that reality is stranger, and far more hopeful, than we were taught. If something sparks, follow it into the full interview, where the rabbit hole goes deeper.

As always, we come at this as skeptics who stayed curious. We stay open-minded and grounded, and we never ask you to take anyone’s word for it, including ours.

In this Conversation: Susanne giesseman on a meditation reframe.
Hear the full interview: On Spotify

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The Skeptic Metaphysicians is a spiritual awakening podcast for open-minded thinkers who refuse to check their critical thinking at the door. Each episode explores consciousness expansion, enlightenment, soul purpose, and soul growth through honest, grounded conversation with leading voices in metaphysics, psychic phenomena, quantum healing, and beyond. 

We dive deep into spiritual awakening, ascension, alignment, and the awakening process without the dogma. From mediumship and spirit guides to Arcturian contact, astrology, and the subconscious mind, we explore it all with curiosity, humor, and zero guru worship.

Whether you're in the middle of your own awakening, questioning reality, or just spiritually curious, this is the podcast for seekers and skeptics alike.

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What if time isn't a line you ride along, but a sphere you navigate with your attention? Aether physicist Krys Ra El, founder of the Elyrion Initiative, joins Will and Karen to explore his Time Sphere model and why he believes your focus, not the clock, decides what you experience next.

We dig into why the law of attraction may have it backwards (Krys calls it the law of mirrors), whether aging is more concept than biology, and how his Center Hypothesis explains where individual awareness comes from.

Plus, his ET contact experiences, his take on teleportation, and the Ether River Generator.
Skeptical? So are we.
Curious? Stick around.

In this episode:
How to use the Time Sphere in daily life
Law of attraction vs. the law of mirrors
Brainwaves and reprogramming the subconscious
ET contact and humanity's next chapter
Connect with Krys: elyrion.org | Instagram @elyrion_010

The Skeptic Metaphysicians is a spiritual awakening podcast for open-minded thinkers who refuse to check their critical thinking at the door. Each episode explores consciousness expansion, enlightenment, soul purpose, and soul growth through honest, grounded conversation with leading voices in metaphysics, psychic phenomena, quantum healing, and beyond. 

We dive deep into spiritual awakening, ascension, alignment, and the awakening process without the dogma. From mediumship and spirit guides to Arcturian contact, astrology, and the subconscious mind, we explore it all with curiosity, humor, and zero guru worship.

Whether you're in the middle of your own awakening, questioning reality, or just spiritually curious, this is the podcast for seekers and skeptics alike.

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At Spirit Fest in Virginia Beach, Will and Karen sit down with Lorenzo Jones, an astro numerologist who blends astrology and numerology into a single practice, reading natal charts, transits, and birth codes side by side to see where the two systems confirm each other.

Lorenzo breaks down how planetary aspects like sextiles and trines map directly onto numerological meanings, reads Will's own chart live (life path 1, Libra rising, Cancer moon, and all), and explains why numerology isn't the "simpler" of the two modalities so much as the more accessible one.

He also touches on human design as a third lens that pulls from both systems plus the I Ching, walks through what Mercury retrograde actually asks of us, and shares a real-time read on the astrological chart of the event itself, a rare air trine wrapped in a "mystic triangle," which he says explains the unusually high energy in the room that day.

It's a conversation about how multiple systems of ancient knowledge can point to the same truth, and what happens when you ask a professional to read your chart on camera.

Guest: Lorenzo Jones

Find him: 
Instagram @enigmatic_zo, coreconfidencelife.com

The Skeptic Metaphysicians is a spiritual awakening podcast for open-minded thinkers who refuse to check their critical thinking at the door. Each episode explores consciousness expansion, enlightenment, soul purpose, and soul growth through honest, grounded conversation with leading voices in metaphysics, psychic phenomena, quantum healing, and beyond. 

We dive deep into spiritual awakening, ascension, alignment, and the awakening process without the dogma. From mediumship and spirit guides to Arcturian contact, astrology, and the subconscious mind, we explore it all with curiosity, humor, and zero guru worship.

Whether you're in the middle of your own awakening, questioning reality, or just spiritually curious, this is the podcast for seekers and skeptics alike.

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Is spiritual awakening real, or just a nice metaphor? Awakened Zen Master Thich Dieu Thien, known as the Awakened One, says it is literal, and she can name the day it happened to her: April 8, 2001. 

Will and Karen ask her the question every seeker wrestles with: how do you actually wake up? She explains the "False Mind," the ever-changing ego built from ignorance, greed and hatred, and why even our skepticism comes from it. She shares why a glimpse of enlightenment fades, what step one really is, and how to catch your reactions before they take over. Will gets a live lesson in finding the "real you," and a surprising truth about the dream world we mistake for real life. 

If you have meditated for years and still feel stuck, this conversation on consciousness, inner transformation and soul growth is for you.

Connect with the Awakened One and her book, 'The Power of AWAKE': universaldoormeditationcenter.org

New to the Awakened One's teachings?
Start here: Tuesday International Meet-Up for newcomers, in person in Sugar Land, TX, Tuesdays 7:30 to 9:30 PM CT (free, register online). Online sessions are coming soon. Call (281) 565-9718 to ask about working with the Awakened One remotely.

Registration is through the "Join this session" button on the Weekly Awake Sessions page.

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This episode is sponsored by:
Speaker and author Scotte Burns, who rode 100,000 miles across 48 states asking one question: what is love? Book him for your event at scotteburns.com.

The Skeptic Metaphysicians is a spiritual awakening podcast for open-minded thinkers who refuse to check their critical thinking at the door. Each episode explores consciousness expansion, enlightenment, soul purpose, and soul growth through honest, grounded conversation with leading voices in metaphysics, psychic phenomena, quantum healing, and beyond. 

We dive deep into spiritual awakening, ascension, alignment, and the awakening process without the dogma. From mediumship and spirit guides to Arcturian contact, astrology, and the subconscious mind, we explore it all with curiosity, humor, and zero guru worship.

Whether you're in the middle of your own awakening, questioning reality, or just spiritually curious, this is the podcast for seekers and skeptics alike.

Subscribe, Rate & Review!
If you found this episode enlightening, mind-expanding, or even just thought-provoking (see what we did there?), please take a moment to rate and review us. Your feedback helps us bring more transformative guests and topics your way!

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🌎 Website – SkepticMetaphysician.com
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